‘I Love the Poorly Educated,’ Donald Trump Said but Do They Still Love Him
Would he be willing to leave the oval office without a civil war?
According to Reuters, when Trump won in Nevada in 2016, he felt how it could contribute to his victory. “We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated,” he declared on 23rd February.
It was love at first sight of victory, and it grew steadily. “The best single predictor of Trump support in the Republican primary is the absence of a college degree,” The Atlantic reported in March of that year.
Trump actually does love the poorly educated. He is not laughing at them or ignoring them or wishing them away or informing them that they are wrong about what is really best for them.
~ Elizabeth Picciuto wrote
And why shouldn’t he? Rural America still loves him for sharing his love for the poorly educated. It is not a one-sided love affair.
Who else would be asinine enough to buy his tripe?
~ Elizabeth Picciuto
CNN aired the news this way:
Since Trump loves to tweet, his love comes back. By the next morning, “I LOVE THE POORLY EDUCATED” was trending on Twitter. Here are two of the tweets:
“I am, by modern standards, poorly educated, and I think that Donald Trump is a threat to America,” tweeted Aaron Camp (@AaronApolloCamp).
Kat (@VTweddingPhoto) wrote, “This is an embarrassment. For the GOP and us as Americans. The world is once again laughing.”
Peter W. Stevenson, of the Washington Post, praised Trump using these words, “Donald Trump might be the most unfiltered candidate in the history of American presidential politics. He says what he wants to say when he wants to say it.”
David Runciman wrote a detailed article in the Guardian, “How the education gap is tearing politics apart.” It is happening in the US as well as in the UK. Class matters. Color still matters. But education seems to matter more. He says that ‘it is hard to avoid the conclusion that how people vote is increasingly being shaped by how long they spent at school’.
The thought that education is going to be the main force behind how democracy works — with an educated class opposing a less educated class — is a frightening one. The poorly educated think that snobbish elitists are trying to control them without knowing what they have to face every day. The educated, on the other hand, are afraid that less intelligent people are choosing to vote for people like Donald Trump. This election season, we are going to see how this divide based on education is going to play out.
On a lighter note, by winning the 2016 elections, he proved his critics wrong. He is not dumb — he only pretends to be dense to attract the stupid and poorly educated voters to steal their votes.
What were his objectives to become the president? Donald Trump is allegedly the first billionaire president. His businesses, however, owe more than $1.8 billion to 150 different institutions — the institutions that, he knew, would report to him if he became president. Compare him to Harry S. Truman, who was the poorest president, with a net worth of less than $1 million.
Does he want to let go of the office of the president? Only five hours after his 2016 inauguration ceremony, Trump filed his papers for re-election to become the earliest applicant in US history.
Trump is determined not to leave office even if he loses the elections — he says that he would not accept the results if the democrats win by ‘cheating’. According to a BBC report, Biden is ahead of Trump in most national polls. He has hovered around 50% in the past ten months, and on occasions, he has had a 10-point lead. But remember that Hilary Clinton was also leading the national polls in 2016.
Final Thoughts
Democracy does not mean a government of the stupid, by the dumb, for the simple-minded. If democracy has to mean anything other than a failed system, the voters have to make an informed decision.
If Trump were to win again, it would only prove that the forces of chaos had derailed the democratic process. It might be Russia who is interfering with the election process, or it might be China, but it would — at least in my opinion — mean that democracy has failed.
One thing I know is that the less educated people don’t change their minds, and it would be next to impossible to defeat Trump in an election if all the more educated people abstained from voting.
The less educated people always vote — at least they are not stupid to not cast their votes like many of the more educated people. At least 40% to 90% of American voters stay home during elections. A low voter turnout for both national and local elections has become a grave issue in 2020.
I think that this election might be the turning point, and the more educated will start voting once again. At this time, it is even more crucial than Biden’s victory that Biden wins by a clear majority.
